Have you seen Transformers?

I'm pretty sure in the movie they take a normal (hot rod) car

and then you push a button, or make it angry or something, and then it turns into a robot:

Transformers is what happens when you go to be a turn-of-the-century (read: child from little house on the prairie?) foreigner extra on the upcoming and star-studded Yunnan based TV series "Zhu family garden." It involves being told the night before that you will leave from school at 7 in the morning and return that evening. It's a 3 hour drive to "location", so you figure that the filming will be short, hilarious and painless, (getting you back in bed by a reasonable hour) but it secretly involves 3 hours of driving, 1 hour of waiting, 1 hour of dressing and makeup, 5 minutes of eating, 5 hours of filming, 2 more hours of driving, 1-2 hours of waiting including a little ravenous eating, and then 3 more hours of filming (and then 4 more hours of driving - with an hour of walking or waiting in the middle). don't add up the numbers, just trust me that we had 'a wrap' at 1:30 in the morning, and arrived back in Kunming at 6:30 this morning.

I can make this relate to food, to be blog-appropriate. Because, if you were wondering (like I had initially), after the general debacle, whether or not it was all worth it for the two free meals we might obtain during the course of the filming, allow me to introduce

exhibit A (mostly unidentified meats peppered with meat juicy veggies),

and exhibit B (town slop hall for set swine):